Tag: chinese
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Court jails Chinese woman for hiding coronavirus symptoms
A Chinese court has handed down a year-long prison sentence to a woman who hid her Coronavirus symptoms before boarding a flight, state media reported on Wednesday. The 37-year-old took medication to suppress a fever before boarding a flight from the United States to China in March 2020, the Global Times reported. She only disclosed…
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Gunmen kidnap 4 Chinese workers, kill policeman in Cross River
Gunmen have kidnapped four Chinese workers from a quarry site in Cross River and shot dead their police guard, police said Wednesday. Abductions for ransom are common in southern Nigeria where foreigners and prominent citizens are regularly targeted. “I can confirm to you that four Chinese workers were abducted last night by unknown gunmen,” Cross…
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Amotekun nabs another 10 Chinese for illegal mining in Osun
The Osun State Western Nigeria Security Network, Operation Amotekun has arrested another 10 Chinese, 1 Ghanaian, and three locals for illegal mining across the state. According to reports, the illegal Chinese miners were arrested on Tuesday at four illegal mining sites in Atakunmosa West local government area of the state. The four illegal mining sites…
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[Photo] Two Chinese arrested for offering EFCC N100m bribe
The Sokoto Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested two Chinese nationals, Meng Kun and Xu Koi, for allegedly offering N100 million as bribe to its zonal head, Abdullahi Lawal. In a statement signed by its spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, on Tuesday, the suspects were arrested on Monday in Sokoto, with the…
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Court orders forfeiture of Chinese’s $300,000 to FG
Justice Babatunde Quadri of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, ordered the final forfeiture of $300,000, belonging to a Chinese national, Li Yan Pin, to the Federal Government of Nigeria. The judge had earlier ordered the interim forfeiture of the money following an exparte application filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.…
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37-year-old Chinese coronavirus researcher shot dead in US
An ethnic Chinese scientist working on the novel coronavirus in the United States has been shot dead in what police said was a murder-suicide over an “intimate partner”. Bing Liu, 37, was found dead at the weekend in his home on the outskirts of Pittsburgh, where he worked as a research professor. The body of…